Summary of Nutritional Outcomes and Anemia Related to S. japonicum and Geo-helminth Infections in Leyte, the Philippines

Remigio M. Olveda, M.D.

Research Institute for Tropical Medicine

Department of Health

Philippines

The mechanisms of schistosomiasis-associated anemia include

extra-corporal blood loss, sequestration of RBC’s in spleen, autoimmune hemolysis, anemia of inflammation (trapped eggs), decreased erythropoiesis,

decreased erythrocyte lifespan,

iron metabolism shifts to storage and h<